We're going, going,...Ghana!: Spring 2013

Cementing the floor of a new rabbit house

Mixing shea butter with our friend Afusa

Sarah and one of her students, Ubeida

A local store run by our friends

The one the only, Hikima

Demonstrating soap to some girls from Sarah's classes

Pouring our harvested honey through a strainer to remove large particulates

The spoils of our bee hive in Tarsor

About 2 liters of honey!

Issah shows the bookeeping for his farmers' group that we've been working on.

Me, Vince, and Stephanie Carey

Sarah's classic pose

Steph and Vince sitting in a tree

Our humble abode for a night. The Oasis is really neat

and the burritos blew my mind...obviously

We found a litter of puppies and couldn't resist.

Sarah likes puppies too. All in due time...

We got to help Osman paint his wife's room neon green. Interesting color for the inside of a room. —

Hikima is excited to see me and my camera. So I snap a pic before she mawls me!

Hikima had fun at farm that day.

Issah does a mango graft

Issah shows me a couple of awesome mango grafts. He already has orders for over a hundred to sell to people. Nice job!

Very concentrated

Issah in our forest of okra.

Our friend the lizard comes out to sun himself almost daily now.

He's tired so I caught him in a yawn

I caught a cockroach while molting. A few minutes later and I wouldn't have seen this guy crawling around my feet in the latrine.

The woman dress to the nines is the mother of a baby who is about to get his official name

Poser.

I slap hands with my friend Nanjo (translated to Pepper)

We move the rabbits from their old home to their newly cemented place. I'm sure they'll like it!

I check one of our project's rabbits for pregnancy. She's a fat one and I'm pretty sure has babies inside.

The next day, Molly and I separate the honey from the wax combs and let it sit to drain. you can't see it, but in this picture, we're literally covered in bees.

Molly Rooney helps us before we go out into the bush to harvest the honey from our beehive. We generated a lot of interest just by wearing the suits. So it was a lively night.

look at a part of our garden decorated with lemongrass and grafted mangoes. Nearly everything growing in the garden can be sold or eaten. That's food security!

African women are STRONG!

Kaharo grew up so fast! Working on the farm

In America we use huge machines and mechanized agriculture to manage hundreds and thousands of acres by a handful of people. This 1 acre plot will take Alija and her boys over a week to plant groundnuts by hand!

A boy in the village was bitten by this snake, that we're pretty sure is a puff adder. The puff adder is responsible for the most snake caused deaths in Africa. Low and behold, the boy died later that day. Since we actually knew the boy, it was a very very sad day.